Posted by
Playful Walrus on Sunday, October 08, 2006 7:45:34 PM
Samantha Kallis of Sierra Madre, California writes in to the Pasadena Star-News to tell us that she really, really, really doesn't want some parents to know that their underage daughters are having abortions. Makes me wonder what she's hiding.
I fear the effects of Proposition 85 on the sacred relationship between a doctor and a patient and the confidentiality that is required to keep America's teens healthy.
Interesting that she uses to the word "sacred". Sounds like she's trying to impose her religion on the rest of us. I wonder if she is also working to repeal the requirements that parental permission - not just notification, which is what Prop 85 requires - be obtained before their minor children get piercings, tattoos, Asprin, or go on field trips?
Prop. 85 seems to me to be just a small step away from a Big Brother approach to sex education.
I wonder if she realizes that most children in this country to go schools that are run by the government. Mind you, California's Prop 85 is about parental notification, NOT permission.
Not only is Prop. 85 the first step to banning all abortions, it erodes the even more fragile idea of doctor-patient confidentially.
Ah, the slippery slope argument. Telling parents that you're giving their children Asprin is the first step to banning all painkillers!!!
Prop. 85 is unrealistic. It does not account for teens who cannot communicate with their parents about their sexuality for fear of mental or physical abuse.
That's a lie. Prop 85 has a very liberal provision for girls in such a position. Your solution, Samantha, is to get the girl an abortion and SEND HER RIGHT BACK INTO THE ABUSIVE HOME! Prop 85 makes it more likely that such girls can escape such a toxic environment, while still getting an abortion if she so chooses.
As an 18-year-old with a healthy relationship with her parents, I can tell you neither my family nor I want to see the right to privacy that is implicated (even if it is not directly written) in the Constitution eroded.
Then I hope you are also working to repeal all of those other instances, medical or otherwise, where parental notification and permission are required.
Please help protect teens' right to choose as well as all of our right to a confidential health care system by voting "no" on Prop. 85.
Sorry, Sam, we're talking minor children who are still living with and relying on their parents. Their parents should know if they are undergoing medical treatment, surgery, or getting pharmeceuticals, whether we're talking abortion or otherwise, especially if their girls are getting pregnant through statutory rape. Their parents are going to have to deal with the possible physical and emotional side-effects, and it is better for all involved if they're informed. Sam, girls have gone home from having an abortion and HAVE DIED, because their parents didn't know to be looking out for the complications. Yes, Samantha, girls have died from "safe and legal" abortions, and I'm not talking about the girls in the womb.
Speaking of abortion... how about that MS "I had an abortion" list? Almost any woman who is on that list is declaring "Despite the numerous forms of contraception, the most effective of which is keeping the knees together, I allowed myself to get pregnant when I didn't want to be pregnant!" Congratulations, genius! What would you think of a list of deadbeat dads with the title "I refuse to pay child support, because I never wanted to be a father in the first place!"? The difference, of course, is that your victims aren't around to read the list.